taxonID	type	description	language	source
4611FA33FFB6FF98FF5DEE930CC3F82D.taxon	description	Figs 1 – 3	en	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
4611FA33FFB6FF98FF5DEE930CC3F82D.taxon	materials_examined	Type material: Holotype male, (ZISP, gen. pr. Nr 1999). ETHIOPIA Southern Nations, Turmi, Emerald Lodge 4.9694 N, 36.4969 E, 915 m, 26 − 30. IV. 2012, R. Beck leg. External characters. Head with yellow hairs. Labial palpi 1.5 times longer than eye diameter in length, bent forward and up, like tusks. Antennae yellow, slightly serrated. Wingspan 19 mm. Wings color light-brown. Series of elongated brown spots along costal edge of fore wing. Other lobes of all wings with elongated brown portions alternating with light yellowish portions. Fringe on wings light-yellow. Legs pale-yellow. Male genitalia. Uncus distally extended, apically with oval notch. Gnathos long, lanceolate, slightly narrowing to apex, equal to uncus in length. Gnathos arms short. Valves quite short, basally extended, smoothly narrowing to apex, poorly sclerotized. Anellus arms equal to gnathos in length and width, apically bluntly rounded and bent inwards. Aedeagus thick, straight, slightly shorter than all genital fittings, with clusters of spiky cornuti located distally. Female unknown.	en	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
4611FA33FFB6FF98FF5DEE930CC3F82D.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. In the light-brown color of the wings, the new species is similar to Alucita rhaptica (Meyrick, 1920), but clearly differs in the male genital structure. In the shape of the valves, uncus and gnathos, it mostly resembles Alucita balioxantha (Meyrick, 1921), from which it differs in the less deep notch on the uncus tip, more narrow anellus arms, aedeagus slightly longer than all genital fittings, while in A. balioxantha the anellus arms are wider than gnathos, and the aedeagus is significantly shorter than all the genital fittings in length. Flight period. April.	en	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
4611FA33FFB6FF98FF5DEE930CC3F82D.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Ethiopia.	en	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
4611FA33FFB6FF98FF5DEE930CC3F82D.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named in honor of Anna Dulepinskaya (Novosibirsk region, Russia), the wife of the first author of this article.	en	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
4611FA33FFB4FF9AFF5DEE930D50F9BA.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. 1 ♂ ETHIOPIA, Southern Nations, Arba Minch, Dorze Lodge, 6.1796 N, 37.5799 E, 2348 m, 20 - 23. IV. 2012, R. Beck leg.	en	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
4611FA33FFB4FF9AFF5DEE930D50F9BA.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Malawi, Madagascar, Reunion, Ethiopia (new species for Ethiopia). Note. We described the new species of many-plumed moth from Malawi and published in Zootaxa Journal in June 2016 (Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich 2016 a), while the species A. meloui was described and published later, in December 2016, in Entomologicheskoe obozrenie Journal (Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich 2016 b). Comparing the external characters of the adults and genitals of A. malawica and A. meloui, we found their complete conspecificity, and as the description of A. malawica had been published before that of A. meloui, the latter becomes a synonym of it. The other species, A. priona, described from Reunion (Bippus 2020) as well as A. meloui is completely identical to A. malawica externally and in the genitals, so it becomes a synonym to the latter. Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to Robert Beck (Munich, Germany) for the materials provided for examination. We also express our gratitude to Anna Ustjuzhanina (Tomsk, Russia) for the language improvements and to Sergey Reshetnikov (Novosibirsk, Russia) for the photos of the adults.	en	Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily, Prozorov, Alexey (2024): Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) - a new family for the fauna of Ethiopia. Ecologica Montenegrina 71: 1-4, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.71.1
